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  1. A Change of Sex

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Wineyard, Val
    Date: Dec. 1980
    Topics: Documentary television programs, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Law, Masculinities, MtFs, Psychiatrists, Sexual orientation, Transsexual people
    Subject: A Change of Sex, Julia Grant
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  2. A Female Husband

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 16, 1842
    Topics: Crimes, Law, Marriage
  3. A Question of Gender

     
    Collection: April Ashley Collection
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Perrini, Silvia
    Date: Jan. 1985
    Topics: Birth certificate amendments, Discrimination, Gender bending, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Intersex, Intersex people, Intolerance, Law, Marriage, Physicians, Transsexual people
    Subject: April Ashley
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  4. A Woman Soldier

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 13, 1886
    Topics: Crossdressing, Law, Passing (Gender), Retirement benefits, Soldiers, Veterans
    Subject: Company F. Second Regiment Michigan Infantry, Franklin Thompson, Joseph Allen, S. E. Seelye
    Description: Wessington Springs Herald (Wessington Springs, South Dakota)
  5. A Young "Man" Accused of Intimacy with a Neighbor's Wife (Okolona Messenger, July 22, 1903)

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 22, 1903
    Topics: Clothing, Law, Passing (Gender), Sexuality
    Subject: James Gatlin, Willie Ray
    Description: Okolona Messenger (Okolona, MI)
  6. April Ashley Near Slavery Says a Judge

     
    Collection: April Ashley Collection
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 21, 1978
    Topics: Divorce, Law, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: April Ashley
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  7. April Ashley's own story

     
    Collection: April Ashley Collection
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Ashley, April
    Date: Feb. 8, 1970
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Identification, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Marriage, Mental health, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Self-acceptance, Sexuality, Transsexual people, Violence
    Subject: April Ashley, Arthur Corbett
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  8. Beyond reasonable doubt?

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Price, Christopher, Caplan, Jonathan
    Date: Nov. 14, 1981
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Arrests, Arson, Courts, Crossdressers, Homosexuality, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Police
    Subject: Ahmet Salih, Antony Ahmet, Colin Lattimore, Henry Fisher, Maxwell Confait, Ronald Leighton, Steve Fletcher, Tony London
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria). Content Warning: T...
  9. Born One Sex, Living Another

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Stevens, Auriol
    Date: 1970 to 1979
    Topics: Assigned gender, Biology, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Intersex, Law, Medicalisation, Psychiatry, Suicide, Transsexual people
    Subject: C.J. Dewhurst, Gender Identity Unit, Roberta Cowell
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to suicide. Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ek...
  10. California Assembly Passes Transgender Crime Bill

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 4, 1998
    Topics: Anti-discrimination law, Criminal law, Gender expression, Hate crimes, Law
    Subject: Sheila Kuehl, Wally Knox
    Description: A short article from "The Texas Triangle's" June 4, 1998 issue. Describes a new California law that "promises to strengthen prosecution of gender-related hate crimes."
  11. Changing Clothes to Make Men Women and Women Men

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: May 21, 1911
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Female impersonators, Imprisonment, Law, Masculinities, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Billy Girard, C. T. Taletrifo, Helena Castle, Hetty King, Julian Eltinge, Lew Sully, Rose Driscoll, Rosw Grady, Sarah Bernhardt, Vesta Tilley
  12. Concealment of Sex

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 18, 1876
    Topics: Autopsy, Clothing, Crossdressing, Law
    Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Dr. Copeland, Lord Mansfield, Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, The Country Wife
  13. Court Upholds Massage Restrictions

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Dallas Morning News
    Date: May 10, 1980
    Topics: Law, Massage, Transsexual people
    Subject: Carl O. Bue, Peter T. Fay
  14. cross-dressing now legal in st. louis

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Fauntleroy, Jim
    Date: Aug. 24, 1986 to Aug. 30, 1986
    Topics: Crossdressing, Law, Newspaper court reporting, Police
    Subject: ACLU News, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Gay Community News
    Description: A short news bulletin recounting a recent court case in St. Louis, MO, in which a female impersonator and a transsexual person sued the city for arresting them for crossdressing. The article insinu...
  15. Cupid's Foibles, Follies, and Fancies

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: American Antiquarian Society
    Creator:
    Date: 1853
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crimes, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender role, Law, Passing (Gender)
    Subject: Park and Boulton
  16. Danish Doctors Again Change Sex of American

     
    Collection: Charlotte McLeod Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Associated Press, Andersen, Eigil
    Date: Feb. 14, 1954
    Topics: Army, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Law, MtFs, Physicians
    Subject: Charlotte McLeod, Christine Jorgensen
    Description: Same article published in the Baton Rouge Advocate and Boston American; links below.
  17. Dee Fights College on His Style of Dress

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Craig, Ian
    Date: Nov. 6, 1980
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Colleges, Cosmetics, Crossdressers, Discrimination, Femininities, Law, Masculinities
    Subject: Dee Ryder-Barratt
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  18. Dr. Mary Walker Looks Like "A Gentleman of the Old School"

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 4, 1912
    Topics: Crossdressing, Gender bending, Law, Military occupations, Physicians
    Subject: Mary Walker, William Howard Taft
    Description: The Day Book (Chicago, Illinois)
  19. Effie Dropbottom Clippings

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 6, 1967
    Topics: Advertisements, Arrests, Drag, Law, Night life
    Subject: Effie Dropbottom
  20. Evil Trade of a Misfit

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Nov. 4, 1962
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crossdressers, Femininities, Fetishism, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Masculinities, Prisons, Prostitution
    Subject: Robin Adrianne Whitehead Ashton-Rose
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  21. Ex-Male Wants Spot In Open Women's Meet

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Baton Rouge Advocate
    Date: Aug. 5, 1976
    Topics: Discrimination, Law, Tennis, Transsexual people
    Subject: Renee Richards, U.S. Tennis Association
  22. Father's Sex Change Plea

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 2, 1983
    Topics: Arrests, Courts, Crimes, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Transsexual people
    Subject: Michelle Kent
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  23. Female Jekyll and Hyde

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 21, 1903
    Topics: Crossdressers, Families, Law, Passing (Gender), Supreme court
    Subject: Elbert Glenn, Ellis Glenn, Hunter H. Moss, Jr.
    Description: Lancaster Ledger (Lancaster, SC)
  24. Fired Transsexual Sues Airline for $4 Million Dollars

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Dallas Morning News
    Date: Aug. 6, 1981
    Topics: Courts, Discrimination, Gender realignment surgery, Law, Transsexual people
    Subject: Eastern Airlines, Fay Calyton, Karen Francis Ulane, R.R. Buttion
  25. Forever April

     
    Collection: April Ashley Collection
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Cleave, Maureen
    Date: Apr. 25, 1982
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Bullying, Clothing, Discrimination, Divorce, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, Hormones, Intersex, Law, Marriage, Masculinities, MtFs, Myocardial infarction, Parents of transgender people, Partners of transgender people, Self-acceptance, Suicide, Transphobia, Transsexual people
    Subject: April Ashley, Arthur Corbett, Coccinelle, Corbett v. Corbett, European Commission on Human Rights, National Council for Civil Liberties, Salvador Dali
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  26. From sex changes to tax dodges

     
    Collection: April Ashley Collection
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Quarrell, John
    Date: Dec. 1985
    Topics: Death and dying, Employment policies, Insurance, Law, Legal process, Marriage, Retirement benefits, Transsexual people
    Subject: April Ashley, Corbett v. Corbett
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  27. From the Land of Poi

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: McIntire, W.E.G.
    Date: Sep. 1963
    Topics: Crossdressing, Drag, Homosexuality, Law
    Subject: Neil Abercrombie
  28. Gay Legal Rights

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator:
    Date: Dec. 1, 1971
    Topics: Anti-discrimination law, Anti-gay discrimination, Drag, Law, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Sodomy laws
    Subject: Alphonso Zirpoli, Florida Supreme Court, Gay Community News, Illinois Gays for Legislative Action, San Francisco Society for Individual Rights, Supreme Court, The Gay Advocates, The University of Michigan
    Description: A collection of legal bulletins on recent important state and federal court cases for LGBT rights. Originally published on page 7 of volume 1, number 24 of Gay Community News.
  29. Gay Movement as a Civil Rights Movement

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Koedt, Anne
    Date: 1972
    Topics: Civil rights, Crossdressers, Feminism, Gay liberation, Law, Oppression, Politics, Transgender people
  30. Gay Rights Handbook

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 1, 1975 to Aug. 7, 1975
    Topics: Anti-discrimination law, Constitution, Constitutional rights, Crossdressers, Gay community, Handbooks, Law, LGBTI community, LGBTI rights, Transsexual people
    Subject: The Rights of Gay People (Book)
  31. Glenn's Brother

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Jul. 16, 1901
    Topics: Alcohol, Law
    Subject: E.B. Genn, Ellis Green
    Description: Marietta Daily Leader (Marietta, OH)
  32. Groom-to-Be Still Is a She

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Reuters Agency, Ltd.
    Date: Sep. 16, 1961
    Topics: Clothing, FtMs, Imprisonment, Law, Marriage
    Subject: Georges Ferruni
  33. He Wants to Be She: Inmate Creates Stir Over Sex Change Bid

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Whitney, David
    Date: Jan. 6, 1980
    Topics: Fear of death, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, Hormone therapy, Law, Prisoners, Psychotherapy, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Daniel E. Diiaconi, Hoyt Cupp, Johns Hopkins University, Linda Hughes, Marion Watters, Wesley Weissert
  34. Husband Claims... She's a He

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Vence, Paul
    Date: Apr. 14, 1963
    Topics: Courts, Law, Legislation, Strippers, Striptease, Stripteasers, Transgender people
    Subject: Coccinelle, Francis Bonnet, Jacqueline Bonnet, Jacques Charles Dufresnoy, Raymond Leyrat
  35. In Male Attire: Remarkable Career of a Female Who Passed for a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (Pre 1900)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Terra Haute Gazette
    Date: Sep. 20, 1875
    Topics: Androgyny, Arrests, Dance, Female impersonators, Law, Minstrel shows, Music, Police, Theatre, Theatre groups
    Subject: Ella Seigen, John Johnson, St. Leon
  36. Jennifer Cleasby Files Against Walter Hartel

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Seattle Daily Times
    Date: Jul. 9, 1983
    Topics: Dance, Dancers, Discrimination, Gender realignment surgery, Law, Transsexual people
    Subject: Jennifer Cleasby, Walter Hartel
  37. Judge rules against sheriff in Teena case

     
    Collection: Brandon Teena Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: O'Bryan, Will
    Date: Oct. 8, 1999
    Topics: Hate crimes, Law, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Transphobia
    Subject: Brandon Teena, Charles Laux, Herbert Friedman, Joann Brandon, John Lotter, Marvin Nissen, Omaha World-Herald, Orville Coady, The Blade
    Description: This text describes the verdict of Judge Orville Coady in the case of Sheriff Charles Laux for his role in the wrongful death of Brandon Teena. This article appeared in The New York Blade on Octobe...
  38. LA Promoter Sues Tamara, Charges Contract Breach

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Sacramento Bee
    Date: Aug. 4, 1955
    Topics: Army, Gender realignment surgery, Law, Marriage, Theatre
    Subject: J.E. Courtland, R. Russell Moore, Tamara Rees Courtland
  39. Letter from a Transsexual

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Forfreedom, Ann, Douglas, Angela
    Date: May 28, 1971
    Topics: Crossdressing, Law, Letters, MtFs, Oppression, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Transsexual people
    Subject: Tranvestite-transsexual Action Organization
  40. Lord Semphill of Scotland Dies; Sex-Change Man Next in Line

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Jan. 1, 1966
    Topics: FtMs, Inheritance and succession, Law
    Subject: Ewan Forbes-Semphill, Lord Semphill
  41. Los Angeles Permits Female Impersonation

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 10, 1940
    Topics: Actors, Female impersonators, Law, Police
    Subject: Julian Eltinge
  42. Male Shake Dancer Plans to Change Sex, Wed GI in Europe

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Jet
    Date: Jun. 18, 1953
    Topics: Actors, Black people, Classification of diseases, Dancers, Female impersonators, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Law, Marriage, Medicalisation, Military, MtFs
    Subject: Charles Robert Brown
  43. Man Poses As Hooker To Clip Johns

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 9, 1968
    Topics: Arrest, Assault and battery, Clothing, Crossdressing, Jails, Law, Police, Prisons, Prostitution, Robbery
    Subject: Franco Moreni, Julia Bianchi, Piero Bianchi
  44. Medicaid Bars Sex Change As Just 'Cosmetic Surgery'

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Washington Evening Star
    Date: Mar. 11, 1973
    Topics: Courts, Discrimination, Gender realignment surgery, Law
    Subject: Dennis M. Sweeney, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Medicaid, Ross Z. Pierpont, Thomas Tallabas
  45. New Case Parallels Jorgensen's

     
    Collection: Charlotte McLeod Collection
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Feb. 25, 1954
    Topics: Army, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Law, MtFs, Physicians
    Subject: Charlotte McLeod, Christine Jorgensen
    Description: Full article published in the Portland Oregonian; link below.
  46. Panel Encourages Private School Aid

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Richmond Times-Dispatch
    Date: Feb. 15, 1980
    Topics: FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Law, MtFs
    Subject: Frank W. Nolen
  47. Passed Off as a Man

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Oct. 5, 1908
    Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Femininities, FtMs, Immigration, Law, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Travel
    Subject: Frank Woodhull, Mary Johnson
    Description: Evening Star (Washington, DC)
  48. Pilot Loses Ruling over Sex Change

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: Sep. 10, 1984
    Topics: Civil rights, Courts, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Law, Transgender rights, Transsexual people, Veterans
    Subject: Eastern Airlines, Karen Ulane
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  49. Police Seeking Tamara on Bad Check Charge

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: The Associated Press
    Date: Aug. 19, 1955
    Topics: Check fraud, Gender realignment surgery, Law, Police
    Subject: Tamara Edel Rees
  50. Preferred Jail to Wearing Skirts

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1900-1949)
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 2, 1911
    Topics: Arrests, Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, Law, Wages
    Subject: Gus Seib
    Description: The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)